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Ya you know spam. Like a cockroch it's pretty hard to kill. Don't give up hope...
1. Create that discardable hotmail account and never give out your real email when you are signing up for something, downloading, or dealing with a company that doesn't have a privacy policy or give the option of allowing them to use your email or not. This is VERY effective.
2. Don't use your real email in usegroups, or start adding the tag to the replay address (this is semi effective)
3. Use a program like Cloudmark Spamnet or Mailwasher to trap and filter spam. Mailwasher goes one step further and allows you to do bouncebacks...basically telling the spammer that you are not at the address and don't reply here again.
4. Help is on the horizon... http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?t...id=1&sid=52021
Advanced programs are on the way that will adapt and analyze email to a level that's never been done before.
I agree with the article that the future to controlling spam is to create guidelines and standards for email and a strict adherence to the standard. A deviation would flag as spam. Controlling the standard means that you will have better means of fixing the problem when the spammer figures their way around it. Spam is the new virus...gumming up the works.
Government Intervention is not the way....legislation won't make a difference in the western part of the globe when the spam is coming from the other side of the world. That and the government doesn't understand I.T. and is usually very misguided in this area. I don't think government regulation is the answer and may create more problems than it solves...but that's just what I think.
"A RONSTER!"
1. Create that discardable hotmail account and never give out your real email when you are signing up for something, downloading, or dealing with a company that doesn't have a privacy policy or give the option of allowing them to use your email or not. This is VERY effective.
2. Don't use your real email in usegroups, or start adding the tag to the replay address (this is semi effective)
3. Use a program like Cloudmark Spamnet or Mailwasher to trap and filter spam. Mailwasher goes one step further and allows you to do bouncebacks...basically telling the spammer that you are not at the address and don't reply here again.
4. Help is on the horizon... http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?t...id=1&sid=52021
Advanced programs are on the way that will adapt and analyze email to a level that's never been done before.
I agree with the article that the future to controlling spam is to create guidelines and standards for email and a strict adherence to the standard. A deviation would flag as spam. Controlling the standard means that you will have better means of fixing the problem when the spammer figures their way around it. Spam is the new virus...gumming up the works.
Government Intervention is not the way....legislation won't make a difference in the western part of the globe when the spam is coming from the other side of the world. That and the government doesn't understand I.T. and is usually very misguided in this area. I don't think government regulation is the answer and may create more problems than it solves...but that's just what I think.
"A RONSTER!"